tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53597543785569791452024-03-14T02:15:14.395-04:00Shawn Ann's Home and GardenShawn Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16242486533549946479noreply@blogger.comBlogger296125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359754378556979145.post-10313381995284626202020-04-17T15:21:00.000-04:002020-04-17T15:21:48.705-04:00Spring 2020<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I haven’t posted here in a while. I’ve mostly been on Instagram where I can interact with other gardeners more easily. So if you and your garden are there, please connect with me! @shawnannshomeandgarden </div>
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Lettuce is going strong. Spinach is playing catch up.</div>
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Sweet potato slips are ready and waiting for the right temperatures. </div>
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Cherries were looking really nice a few days ago (this pic),but we have had freezing temps and hope that we will still get some. They don’t look as well. </div>
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Bluebird couple has been around for a few months now and they have eggs and are on full guard now! </div>
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We have hatched more than 15 black swallowtails! </div>
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Took some cuttings from</div>
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Hoping they will propagate! </div>
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<br />Shawn Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16242486533549946479noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359754378556979145.post-83596632577482324422018-09-17T15:42:00.000-04:002018-09-17T15:45:43.180-04:00Harvest Monday 9/17/2018<div style="text-align: center;">
I have been sick this week so I have only picked a couple of days. But still have good stuff coming in!<br />
Check out <a href="https://happyacres.blog/" target="_blank">Happy Acres for this weeks Harvest Monday</a>.<br />
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The tomato plants are still producing pretty good. I have been debating pulling them because my storage is full and because the storms snapped all the strings and the plants are laying on the ground making them a tangled mess and hard to get to some of the tomatoes.</div>
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I made a Buffalo Chicken soup this week using a lot of vegetables from the garden, including potatoes, celery, carrots, garlic, and herbs.<br />
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It was pretty yummy.<br />
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So, I cut and dried all these Hydrangea flowers and now I am trying to figure out how I can use them in some fall decorations for my mantle.<br />
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Last week I found two of these caterpillars on my blueberry plants. I decided to put them in the butterfly house to see what they become. They are pretty good at camouflaging themselves!<br />
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And it was a tiny little beauty. I think it is a Blackberry Looper moth. And it sure is pretty and only as big as my finger nail.<br />
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Also found this cool walking stick bug on my patio. <br />
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A beautiful Sunrise on Friday morning! No Filter! Amazing isn't it! The sunset that evening looked almost the same!<br />
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So, I have been seeing a lot of Question Mark butterflies in my garden this week. They look VERY similar to the Comma. Here are the differences in both butterflies I found in my garden this week. The <a href="https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Polygonia-comma" target="_blank">Comma</a> is smaller than the <a href="https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Polygonia-interrogationis" target="_blank">Question Mark</a>. (see details at <a href="http://butterfliesandmoths.org/">Butterfliesandmoths.org</a>) It looks very similar on the top of the wings but pretty different underneath. The patterns are different as well as the marking of a question mark or a comma. The tails on the Question Mark are also a little longer, and the Hook on the upper wing is a little more pronounced. These are both amazingly beautiful butterflies and I am thrilled to have them in my garden. I will do more to attract them earlier next year. Right now they love the sap coming out of the dying sunflowers. So I'll need to find some plants to produce more sap as they usually only go to flowers if their preferred food sources of sap, poo, and rotting fruit are unavailable.<br />
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A couple weeks ago my sweet Cassie Passed away. She had a tumor and it came on rather suddenly. We had her for 16 years. She was an awesome cat. But she was getting older and weaker. I was sad to see her go and in a little denial that it would happen.<br />
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Before we knew she was sick, we had already had arrangements to add another baby to our home. He arrived this week. We named him Jet. While we are sad that one of our babies is gone, we have lots of love to give to this new baby kitty. Cassie will be missed. <br />
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Our house is absolutely busy these days between the garden, new kitties, old kitties and cross country. But I am absolutely so proud of all three of my kids that I can't help but share! What they do is amazing. No other sport is more disciplined and requires so much endurance. It amazes me.<br />
All three of their teams won trophies this past weekend. My third graders team got second, and both (boys and girls) middle shcoolers teams got 1st! None of mine medaled this weekend in the tough competition but two of them scored. (only 5-7 of the top runners score, the lower the better)<br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hope you are having a great garden week!</span></span></i></b><br />
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Shawn Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16242486533549946479noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359754378556979145.post-38603510273951221432018-09-10T10:17:00.003-04:002018-09-10T10:17:40.263-04:00Harvest Monday 9/10/2018<div style="text-align: center;">
Cross Country season has started in our house with three school age runners, middle and elementary. It has been very busy and I keep forgetting to post for <a href="https://happyacres.blog/" target="_blank">Harvest Monday</a> (<please visit <a href="https://happyacres.blog/" target="_blank">Happy Acres</a> and participate)! There are a lot of things coming out of the garden, mostly tomatoes! I roast them and make sauce and usually freeze them, so my freezer is full!</div>
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I have also been chasing a lot of butterflies around the garden and posting submitting them to Butterflies and Moths of North America. I have had several accepted and several are still pending! It is a great project if you have a butterfly garden, consider submitting your own butterfly sightings!</div>
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Here is one of mine >> <a href="https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/sighting_details/1183821" target="_blank">BAMONA</a></div>
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This is one of my favorite sightings in the garden this year. It is a first for me! This is the Question Mark Butterfly, which I have also submitted to BAMONA. I love this butterfly. It i so pretty!</div>
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These butterflies were all fighting over the sap in the sunflower stalks as well as the wasps in above photo. These other butterflies are Hackberry Emperor.</div>
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This weekend was our home XC race. It is always the funnest but this year was even more exciting with the remnants of a tropical storm coming through. The course was a big muddy mess. Cars getting stuck, kids losing shoes, kids sliding down muddy hills. Crazy! This was my families mess! Ha!</div>
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And both of my Middle Schoolers got medals. 11th and 24th! And both the boys and girls placed 1st for teams! Yay!!! The girls beat out last years State champions for the last 3 races, they never could beat them last year! And so far it is looking like the boys may have a 4th strait year of all wins, although it is early...here's hoping!</div>
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And in addition to the rain causing a big XC mess, it also made a mess of my garden. All my tomatoes that were tied up to 10 foot metal stakes have fallen and the strings have snapped. They are laying down around the raised beds all the way to the ground! I'll have some garden clean up this week for sure!</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Hope you are having a happy harvesting close to summer!</span></div>
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It's <a href="https://happyacres.blog/" target="_blank">Harvest Monday at Our Happy Acres</a>. I completely missed last weeks. But for this week I still am getting plenty of goodies out of the garden.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first Lungo Bianco Zucchini was harvested along with a lot of beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, and marconi peppers.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The orange/yellow tomatoes are Valencia. The smaller ones are surprise ones. And the larger one is probably Brandywine. Also some Chinese Red and green noodle beans.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blanched and froze two bags of a bean mix, bush, pole and noodle.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is how I roast tomatoes to be made into sauce for the freezer for soups and stuff during the winter. I use a lot of sauce. I got 12 Cups out of this batch.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Raspberries! The fall raspberries have begun. Not too many at all. But the plants are all starting to look healthier. They need some help and amendments I think. Also the first zucchini from my second planting. The first planting didn't produce much and died from powdery milder.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Snack peppers here and a second handful of raspberries, cucumbers, black beauty zucchini, tomatoes and basil and beans.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My first ever Celery. I cut down two bunches. There is still more but they weren't the size of these. Some bell peppers, noodle beans, cucumbers and tomatoes.</td></tr>
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I ran accross several creatures during the week. This isn't all of them but the best photos!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of two horn worms in my garden covered in parasitic wasps. I throw the other ones to the birds and keep them happy while I leave these alone!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In my picking of celery I found this guy. He is still as small as the tip of my fingernail. We will put him in the butterfly house and raise and release him.</td></tr>
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Have you seen the Blue Mud Dauber Wasp before? This is my first time. This is an impressive bug. Very large wasp, this one was probably more than an inch. They eat black widows! Not that I have seen any around here. I believe there are two of these hanging around my Limelight hydrangeas. They are very pretty, shiny, fuzzy and blue! From what I have read they are not aggressive. They are pretty quick flyers though, getting a snap shot of them is difficult!</div>
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This Lacewing was hanging around my milkweed. I have Milkweed Aphids (tiny yellow plant suckers 😡) so I hope this aphid eater sticks around and takes care of them!</div>
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Last year was the first time I had ever seen these Snowberry Clearwing Moth's (not a bee). I had one last year. This year I have two and they spend all their time in my garden! One day my daughter saw one just sitting on a tomato leaf which was odd because they seem to never stop fast flying....like a humming bird, which is why they call it hummingbird moth, it hovers while it eats. Later I caught the two mating and showed my daughter. She blurted, "They had a date and the girl was late!" Cute and funny. They are a really cool creature! I love them!</div>
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I'm not sure if this is a welcome visitor or not. Not on this day, as he had a bee in his grasp. If he is going to eat bad bugs I'm all for him but if he is eating my bees....not so much. This is a Robber Fly. </div>
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Early in the season this guy was living in my butterfly bush. I kept finding white cabbage moth wings with no body. So I moved him for fear he would get a beautiful swallowtail. I put him in the bean bed and he has been doing a beautiful job taking care of the bean bugs and bean beetles and he has grown every time I come across him. He has gotten so big and his back wings have started to turn brown. He truly is huge! And my beans look better since they are not being devoured by bean beetles! I need to find another one to put into the squash bed. I believe the icicle radishes are helping to deter the squash vine borer but the squash bugs are impossible! It would give me great pleasure to see a Mantis devouring ALL the squash bugs!</div>
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I have had a range of Swallowtails. The Tiger Swallowtail, Black swallowtail, Zebra Swallowtail and some other black varieties that I have not seen close enough to know if they are Pipevine or Spicebush. Some of those black ones are hard to differentiate! But I love them in my garden, they are so majestic, graceful and beautiful! I have had several Tiger Swallowtails, sometimes at the same time!</div>
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I have also enjoyed the presence of at least one Monarch that frequently but quickly visits my garden. It doesn't hang around like the Tiger and Zebra Swallowtail. They like to linger in the garden. </div>
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This visitor is also welcome most the time, as long as she isn't digging in bare newly seeded beds. She keeps me company and keeps the bunnies away! She does however like to stalk the hummingbird feeder. Hope she never catches one!</div>
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Oh the Bees! They are oh so welcome always! Pollinate, my friends! Pollinate!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Happy Gardening Adventures! What kind of welcome visitors do you have?</span></div>
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It's Harvest <a href="https://www.ourhappyacres.com/" target="_blank">Monday at Our Happy Acres</a></div>
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I have been away on vacation. We spent some time in Pensacola at Fort Pickens beach watching Blue Angels practice </div>
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Then we went on a wonderful Disney cruise with the In Law family.</div>
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While away the harvesting did not wait for me! I returned some piles on the counter and some was used by my caretaker and given away to friends while I was away.</div>
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I took the kids to Idle Wild Butterfly farm in Lousiville. The Rue was just covered in Giant Swallowtail caterpillars. I went and bought 4 Rue plants for myself this week because I WANT THESE! Rue is a host plant but mainly citrus is a host plant for them more south.</div>
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A few of my beautiful sunflowers! Love them!</div>
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This one appears to have no background but this is up against the sky, it is a good 7-8 feet tall!</div>
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It's <a href="https://www.ourhappyacres.com/" target="_blank">Harvest Monday at Our Happy Acres</a>. Join in on the garden conversation and share your harvest and happenings in the garden!<br />
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My daughter wanted homemade potato chips for dinner last week so I told her if she digs them, I'll make them! I didn't get a harvest photo but I got a pic of the finished product. They were yummy. I baked them. I may try to fry them lightly next time.</div>
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Beans, Cucumbers, white currant and cherry tomatoes and berries. Beans and cucumbers have slowed some but are still producing and the cherry tomatoes are picking up.</div>
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Pulled some carrots for dinner. And the first snacking pepper of the season! With more to come!</div>
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Enough potatoes between yesterday and today to have potatoes for breakfast and dinner! I won't argue with that! 😄 I picked the first Valencia tomato, the smaller orange one. Seems I am having a few tomato surprises in my garden for tomatoes. Don't know if I mislabeled seeds or if I saved them they didn't stay true to the original. I did buy the Valencia plant locally but I thought it read that it was a pink or red plum tomato. Surprised to see orange.</div>
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We went camping outside of Gatlinburg, Tn this week. On our last day we drove the Cades Cove loop and hiked to Abrams Falls. We saw this deer in the Cades Cove meadows. On our trail, we got all the way out to the falls and it began to thunder storm, heavy soon after our arrival! We had to hike back almost 3 miles in torrential rains with thunder and lightning and 4 kids 8-18 years old. Lots of screaming and one dead waterlogged phone 😐 It was a trip we won't soon forget. We were soaked as much as if we had jumped in the water hole, and the kids did.</div>
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Every week I get my farm fresh eggs from my friend who moved further out to the country a couple years ago to start her little farm. Thistle Rock farm. I love to get these eggs from her, the color on the outside and the intense color on the inside and I know exactly what she feeds and does not feed her chickens! Best way to have eggs if you can't have chickens yourself.</div>
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If your local, you can find Thistle Rock farm on Facebook. She has eggs but also we got to pick our own turkey out last year. That was lots of fun! I believe in the future she plans to have honey and other things. She has already got her bees. And it is fun to get to go out and explore her little farm any time we want, and wish I had one of my own!<br />
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I can't believe it is July! It was a very humid day yesterday with a heat index of 104. Needless to say I waited until the sun was all the way out of the garden before I went out to harvest and I was still drippy! </div>
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It is <a href="https://www.ourhappyacres.com/" target="_blank">Harvest Monday over at Our Happy Acres.</a> Join the conversation and share your harvests!</div>
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Last week I had a nice 4 lbs of beans trimmed and ready for blanching. This week is shaping up to be similar. I should have a good amount for freezing, and I am happy with that! </div>
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Picked the first harvest of carrots. This is a kaleidoscope mix. We had them roasted for dinner that very night! I love the colors! So bright and beautiful!</div>
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I love the colors of the potatoes as well! I was so happy to find most of these so close to the surface. I could probably dig for more. This was only one small section at the soils surface.</div>
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The first White Currant tomatoes. They are really small, about the size of a Matt's Wild cherry. The full size tomato is suppose to be a Monster Pink. This one is pretty average in size, we'll see what the rest of the season yields from this plant. My daughter ate ALL the tomatoes! </div>
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The zucchini are not producing well. I have pulled one plant of 2
already. Mildew was effecting it quite a bit. No sign of the dreaded
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The small tomato in the middle of that pile is the surprise tomato. I don't know what it is. Some sort of red cherry size tomato about an inch in size. So, I thought I was planting a giant variety and I got a tiny variety! 😳 And I guess I missed this pickling cucumber...it has gotten quite large. 😐<br />
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A kind of bluebird. If you know what it is please share. </div>
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I've spotted the monarch twice and I am so happy. This is the first year I have attracted the monarch to my garden!</div>
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Here he is on a wild onion I let bloom.</div>
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This tiny little toad is not much bigger than the sidewalk pebbles. Very hard to see and blends in to the mulch. The last time I had a toad in the garden he always hid in the straw and I never could see him. I accidentally broke his leg but he stayed in my garden all season with a broken leg that never healed. I hope this one does not get under my feet and I am glad he is here!</div>
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I counted 8 Blazing Orange Bell Peppers on this plant! That is the most I have ever had on one plant I think. 😊</div>
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I guess these tomatoes will be a surprise. I thought I had planted Great White, but it would never produce this many tomatoes in a set. It's too large of a variety and there are many more than this. So, surprise tomato!</div>
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This is a Brandymaster Pink. There are two large ones right now.</div>
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White Currant tomatoes are getting very close! These are a very tiny tomato similar in size to the Matt's Wild Cherry.</div>
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Lipstick Red Pepper, growing strait up. There are 3 so far.</div>
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Marconi Peppers<br />
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I know this bed is a little full. I had a lot of volunteer flowers pop up and I just love all the colors together with the vegetables so I let them stay. There are peppers and cosmos and chard and beetroot and salvia and more.<br />
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Chard and celery<br />
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What's growing in your garden?<br />
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I'm picking beans every day now. I have had 2 full gallon size zipper bags full already!</div>
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It's <a href="https://www.ourhappyacres.com/" target="_blank">Harvest Monday at Our Happy Acres</a>.</div>
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I'm still getting cucumbers every day as well. I have had to pawn them off on neighbors and come up with more creative ideas to use them.</div>
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Below are the last of the shelling peas. I pulled both the shelling and the snap peas this week. Too hot and they weren't producing well.</div>
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Lots of raspberries and blueberries are coming in. Gonna have to bribe
the kids to help me pick them all. (They are not big helpers, I may need
to seek neighbor kids who enjoy it cause they don't have gardens!)</div>
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How do you like my swan cucumber? :) What does it look like to you?</div>
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Trying something different with the cucumbers. Cucumber and cream cheese tea sandwiches. Both the older two loved them, the younger would not even try! I picked some fresh dill for the filling. It was all a bit bland to me so yesterday I cut some green onions to add to it. I haven't tried it just yet so we will see. Next on the list to try is a Cashew Tuna Salad Cucumber bites recipe I found on pinterest!</div>
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Scallions and zucchini were used for taco zucchini boats. The rest of the scallions were used in the cucumber filling above. This was the first tomato. Amazingly it wasn't a cherry size tomato, it was a Cherokee purple. Sadly it had a little bit of end rot, but I used the rest on the taco zucchini boats.</div>
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Beans, beans, more beans! I tried to get my daughter to help as she ate them raw strait out of the garden, but she sat there and barely picked a handful. She couldn't even find any of the green ones!</div>
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Pollinator photos! Just because I love them and love practicing taking photos!</div>
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My garden is just full of all kinds of fun flyers. And then some not so fun (Japanese Beetles-grrrrrr) They meet their soapy water demise!</div>
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I had to go after a couple of wasps as they chased the humming birds right out of the garden! 😡They seem to be happily enjoying their nectar and hummingbird sage now!</div>
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In Running news, I ran with my Daughter and younger son on Saturday at the Louisville Parkrun. My other son was sick. But my 8 year old and I both beat our own times! This was the third week in a row for me! Yay! And I didn't feel quite as bad as I have been the past several Saturdays. With my MS, the runs and the heat really take it out of me. I'm hoping my body will continue to adjust and I won't throw myself into a relapse.</div>
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I gave my 8 year old an incentive to beat his time by 5 minutes ( I had a buy one get one free nintendo game hidden away). He beat his time by 7 minutes and 20 seconds! I knew he could he is just never motivated! Plus one of his XC coaches showed up to be a coarse monitor and cheered us on! That was so great of her!</div>
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Shawn Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16242486533549946479noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359754378556979145.post-46431548872485221652018-06-18T07:51:00.001-04:002018-06-18T09:37:13.757-04:00Harvest Monday June 18, 2018<div style="text-align: center;">
It's <a href="https://www.ourhappyacres.com/" target="_blank">Harvest Monday at Our Happy Acres</a>. </div>
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It is a hot hot start to our week here in Kentucky Zone 6. So much has been going on in the garden this week! I'll start with the garden harvests.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oregano, Dill and cucumbers...soooo many cucumbers this week!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kale, Cilantro, cucumbers and shelling peas, and the first purple bush bean! My daughter ate it raw! She loves them! When she was little she use to steal them off my counter when I wasn't looking.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First raspberries of the season. Since they have been transplanted twice from the old house to church and then this new house they have not been super happy. They look better this year but still not as good as they use too. Maybe next year will be even better. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chard, cucumbers, peas and berries!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cucumbers, peas, berries and snap peas. These cucumbers are called Sweet Success and I am quite happy with them. They have resisted the mildew that is taking over the rest of the bed and they are so long! I thought maybe I didn't get them in time but they are mature around 10-12 inches! These 4 snap peas may be the end of those for the season. They will probably get pulled this week and make room for other stuff in the bed that is getting ready to take over!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More Sweet Success cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, zucchini, shelling peas, raspberries and the second purple bush bean, which my daughter also ate!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A large bounty of cucumbers, the first green and yellow bush beans, parsley, zucchini, berries, greens, and shelling peas.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look at the size of that blueberry! It is a Chandelier. A very large plump but not super productive berry. Productive enough just not as much as the other 4 bushes. This is the first one of the season off that bush. My 8 year old was salivating over it as I was washing everything up!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He told me to put it ON TOP of the quarter! He thinks it's pretty cool too. He devoured that whole pile of berries without sharing in about 2 minutes!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is what I used up my zucchini with this week! It was so amazingly delicious! <a href="http://eat-drink-love.com/spinach-artichoke-zucchini-boats/" target="_blank">Spinach and Artichoke Zucchini Boats</a>. I linked the recipe, check it out! I used some of my chard and leftover spinach in it and I also added gluten free italian bread crumbs to the top! OH MY GOODNESS! AMAZING!!!! You must try it if you have an abundance of zucchini and like spinach and artichoke dip!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In case you missed it, we found a bunny nest in my bush bean bed this week. My daughter went looking for her little turtle in the garden and this is what we found. We started off with 5. I was a little worried about that but nature seems to be taking care of itself, sadly. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On Friday there were 2 left. One died after a rain. It was away from the nest and cold and wet and shivering. I returned it to the nest with the warm cozy ones, but he quickly died. Two disappeared and I don't know what happened to them. They are very young, probably less than 2 weeks. And then one of the last two met with a neighborhood cat.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She is a lovely cat, just doing what cats do. I enjoy her greatly. Here she is keeping close to the nest, hanging out under the sweet potato vines keeping me company while I work in the garden. She's sweet.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the last bunny. I am doing what I can to protect it and as soon as I can I will transplant it to a safer place. For now he is hiding quite well up under all the weeds. Bunny's are very cute but super destructive in the garden. I do hope he survives though. (Edited to add: this poor bunny did not make it either. We are sad. We had really hoped to transplant him to the nature preserve :( </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And our swallowtail has emerged this morning. It's wings are still wet and flimsy. He should be ready to go soon!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Can you see the three in the tree? Finches that is! Love them! So pretty and bright in the garden!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is becoming one of my favorite coneflowers. Double Scoop Orangeberry. Isn't it lovely? It is even prettier now than when I took this photo. It gets prettier every day! LOVE!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Teddy Bear Sunflower. This one here is not even a foot tall! Super small, but they can get up to 3 feet. Cute, isn't it? </td></tr>
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Shawn Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16242486533549946479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359754378556979145.post-24820625995183705062018-06-11T07:49:00.001-04:002018-06-11T07:49:43.073-04:00<div style="text-align: center;">
Good morning. It's rainy and 67 here in KY this morning. I'm so glad, the garden needed it.<br />
It's <a href="https://www.ourhappyacres.com/" target="_blank">Harvest Monday at Our Happy Acres</a>. Join in and share your harvests with us!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picked my first potatoes! I saw one poking out of the ground last week while watering so decided to check for some.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I used some of the potatoes and greens fresh from the garden for my favorite breakfast! ;)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I finished pulling out most of the lettuce and spinach. It was beginning to change flavor.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pruning back the basil again to get it bushier.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dill, cucumbers, snap peas, shelling peas on right, strawberries, first blueberries and first raspberries of the season.</td></tr>
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We found this tiny baby box turtle on our running path on Saturday. My older two did excellent, both of them beating their best<u><i><b> 5K</b></i></u> <i><b>time</b></i> (not their best mile pace, but their school meets are much shorter distances). Twelve year old daughter did it in 23.53 coming in 2nd out of 30, 12 year old son did it in 25:31 coming in 6th. My youngest, 8, and I came in last with 39:05 and 39:48. I beat my best but he came close. I'm probably holding him back but he has to stay with an adult :(</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The caterpillar we had last week has gone into it's cocoon. Can't wait to see what kind of swallowtail emerges! We do this every year, probably multiple times. It's so fun with the kids. They feed it and take care of it and then we release it when it emerges as a butterfly. One year we found the egg and took care of it from egg to butterfly and kept track of its stages and days it took from egg to butterfly! So fun!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peas are still happy, for now. I love the contrast of the purple peas. It is so darn hard to find all the green ones, they just blend in!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sweet potato bed has cosmos in the middle of it. I figured they'd get tall enough that the sweet potatoes wouldn't shade them out. Looks pretty nice.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red Nasturtium and some powdery mildew on my zucchini :(</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These snacking peppers are good size, maybe they will start to change colors soon! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The beans are coming! :)</td></tr>
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Shawn Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16242486533549946479noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359754378556979145.post-50339087228885436262018-06-04T09:25:00.002-04:002018-06-04T09:25:56.413-04:00June in the Garden<div style="text-align: center;">
It is a beautiful June morning in the garden! Waking up to 50's and 60's in our area! What a relief! It is suppose to be upper 70's lower 80's! Yay!</div>
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It's Harvest Monday at <a href="https://www.ourhappyacres.com/" target="_blank">Our Happy Acres! </a></div>
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The strawberries are winding down around here, and a few summer crops are picking up the pace.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Strawberries and a few snap peas. Perfect for kids lunches on the last week of school!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ahhhh! Cucumbers! I'm getting plenty at the moment! I even gave a tour of my garden to some friends the other day and sent them home with some cucumbers that were ready in the garden! They were nice size and shape. I am so happy for this because last year my soil mix was very dry so most of our cucumbers were bitter and misshaped. It was so depressing! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A wonderful mix of peas, greens, zucchini, strawberries and cucumbers!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top pea is a shelling pea and the lower two are snap peas. Caruthers Purple podded and Magnolia Sugar Snap, and a green unknown variety.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Found this beautiful 8 Spotted Forester moth the other day and it was so friendly and kept landing on us. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Swallowtail Caterpillar</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Garden in June. I can't seem to get a good full shot like I use to get from the top floor of our old house. But it is really full and really fast with all the heat we have had!</td></tr>
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I love to talk about anything garden! Especially beneficial insects and companion planting. I have lots of flowers scattered though my vegetable garden. Not only is it beautiful but it attracts so many pollinators, beneficials and I love the butterflies too!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I found this great Butterfly Farm right in the middle of down town Louisville I had no idea was there. They have an indoor butterfly lab and an outdoor butterfly garden and you can buy beneficials and they had lots of Milkweed varieties. I bought 3, I have been searching for plants for a while! I got Showy Milkweed, Prairie Milkweed and Butterfly Milkweed. And I can't wait to see the Monarchs come!</td></tr>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/idlewildbutterflyfarm" target="_blank">Idle Wild Butterfly Farm</a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This year is the first time I have noticed Lacewings in my garden. And they are making themselves known too, they seem to get in my face every time I am out there. I guess they want me to know they are there. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Having an aphid problem so here come the lady bugs! I had ordered some earlier in the year, but of course as soon as the aphids showed up I had to go searching for the lady bugs!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So happy to find these lacewing eggs this morning.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kale, Strawberries, snap and shelling peas, pickling cucumber. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Caruthers on left, snap green and purple magnolia on right And ONE Blueberry. The blueberries are on the way!</td></tr>
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My husband and my neighbors think I'm a little crazy. We live in a newer neighborhood and across the street has yet to be developed. It is full of queen anne's lace and purple thistle. The beneficials love it! There are so many! So, I take my little bag and I go collect and put them in the garden! There are many still this morning on my aphid infested plants!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Queen anne's lace</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My bag with ladybugs and one lacewing! The lacewings are sooooo fast so they are harder to catch! I lay the bag open next to the infested plants!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even better than being the Popsicle house? Being the house with all the berries! Neighborhood kids raid the berry bed all summer, with my children of course!</td></tr>
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I wasn't sure if I was going to get in a post today. I ran again this past Saturday at the Parkrun with my kids, and my physical abilities have been more challenged this week (MS). But I am glad I did, I had so much to share and hope you enjoy sharing with me!</div>
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Shawn Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16242486533549946479noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359754378556979145.post-87095285021462456292018-05-28T08:38:00.001-04:002018-05-28T08:44:37.352-04:00Harvest Monday May 28, 2018<div style="text-align: center;">
It's<a href="https://www.ourhappyacres.com/" target="_blank"> Harvest Monday at Our Happy Acres</a>! <br />
I've been picking a LOT of strawberries this week. The most I have ever had! I didn't even take pics of them all cause that would be quite boring! And they are getting eaten up so quickly. We have mostly been eating them plain but I did make some biscuits one day for shortcake. That is my favorite way to have shortcake. I used the Gluten Free Bisquick because it is sort of sweet already and makes them good for shortcakes! I haven't found a good homemade GF recipe for biscuits yet.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Strawberries, mixed lettuces, beet greens, kale.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So many of these bowls have been filled this week. Almost every day.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My first zucchini, pickling cucumber, and snap peas of the season! Yay!</td></tr>
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I ran my first 5K this last Saturday with my kids. They are all 3 cross country runners and 2 just finished their track season. There is a great program here called<u><i><b> <a href="https://www.parkrun.com/countries/" target="_blank">Parkrun</a></b></i></u> where you can go every Saturday to run a timed 5K for free (it is in many cities worldwide). I thought it would be a good way to help them stay in running shape between track and cross country season. My younger one had to have an adult with him at all times though so I did it. This is no easy task for me (Multiple Sclerosis). So I am feeling quite proud of myself.....but today, I can barely walk. Ha ha! I hope I can continue to do it with him cause I really enjoyed it but I won't be able to keep up with his quick young energetic body for long!</div>
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My daughter, who is quite the runner, did this in 25 minutes and was 7th overall and first for her gender and age group. Her twin brother did it in 35Minutes and the young one did it in 38Minutes, he's 8 years old.</div>
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Shawn Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16242486533549946479noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359754378556979145.post-4059791028056427442018-05-25T14:42:00.002-04:002018-05-25T14:42:44.400-04:00Deadheading Salvia And Destructive Pests<div style="text-align: center;">
I love Salvia. Snowhill Salvia below is my favorite. I have had Snowhill salvia at both my old house and it was one of the first plants I got for the new house. It is beautiful this year. I love how it has filled in to this beautiful 2 foot mound. It is such an easy plant that comes back year after year without a whole lot of fuss.</div>
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I'm not sure I took much care in deadheading before this year. Maybe I didn't at all or maybe I just cut it back with sheers hoping for new flowers. Little did I know that there is a technique to it and I was probably cutting off new buds.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The flowers have started to dry up and brown, so it is time for a trim.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This did take a little time for a plant this size. I went looking for new buds to the outside of each flower stalk.</td></tr>
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I went through the whole plant and now I will wait for it to put on a new beautiful display of white flower stalks.</div>
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This year I bought some new colors. Merleau Blue Salvia and New Dimension Rose Salvia. </div>
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This one below, East Friesland Salvia, was purchased from a big box store that obviously didn't care for it well. Probably watered too harshly and didn't get enough sun and therefore got leggy and does not have good form. I imagine it will be as beautiful as the white one next year after some love. But I did trim it back as well as the others.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Merleau Blue Salvia - new buds.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">New Dimension Rose Salvia about a week ago.</td></tr>
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In bug news. Did you know that fireflies are a predator of cutworms and slugs? I learned this on the <a href="https://www.almanac.com/content/fireflies-why-do-fireflies-glow" target="_blank">Farmers Almanac </a>website. I'm glad I saw a couple in the strawberry patch as I was cleaning it yesterday. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I found between 5-10 of these very large creatures in the strawberry bed and lots of little ones too.</td></tr>
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Between my driveway and house I have a 3 foot by about 20 foot flower bed. I had it all imagined and planted with flower seedlings to attract butterflies and bees. Cosmos, persian carpet zinnias, blue bedder salvia (differnt from above), shasta daisy's, gaillardia, etc. These buggers below practically cleaned it all out! GRRR! And I had a LOT of extras to replace damaged plants with. They ate them all! I now have a different vision with more fully grown plants purchased from the nursery, including some of the salvias above. </div>
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Note to self. Start Flowers indoors much earlier so they can withstand the damage of slugs and cutworms. The grown plants out there are full of holes now but at least they are alive.</div>
Shawn Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16242486533549946479noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359754378556979145.post-13090506726238959022018-05-21T06:49:00.000-04:002018-05-21T06:49:24.001-04:00Harvest Monday May 21, 2018<div style="text-align: center;">
It is Harvest Monday over at <a href="https://www.ourhappyacres.com/" target="_blank">Our Happy Acres</a>.</div>
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The garden is starting to produce more and more every day and I love it. It is so satisfying to begin harvesting what you started from seed.</div>
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I'm getting lots of greens right now, but we must enjoy them now because all the heat we are having will cause them to bolt rather quickly so they won't be around much longer. We have gotten some much needed rain though and the garden is thriving because of it!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mix of lettuces, beet greens, Red Russian kale and spinach..</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first round of strawberries that I am sharing with the birds and bugs...though not by choice. It's ok, I can cut around it. Just hope I get more than they do.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The second round of strawberries and a big batch of cilantro that will definitely be bolting soon. It is getting taller and taller which is a sure sign.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is how I dry my herbs much of the time. Sometimes I use the dehydrator but this is just easier sometimes. They are reusable mesh produce bags.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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We are still working on finishing up our fall harvest of sweet potatoes. This is a mix of Beauregard, Jewel and All Purple. I usually like to cook them up with apples, we like the combination but I was out this time. I roasted these up. The purple sweet potatoes are much dryer than the orange varieties so I find it helpful to cook them with a fruit.<br />
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The Mantis' have hatched! </div>
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I spread them all around the garden.</div>
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They are enjoying the vegetables. </div>
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Butterflies are making a return for spring. Waiting on a lot of flowers to bloom to see more.</div>
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I ordered Lady bugs, Lacewings larvae, nematodes and Mantis sacks a few weeks ago. All have been released, but I kept the mantis sacks in a bug box until they hatched and then released them with the kids. I have seen the Lady bugs hanging around in a variety of flowers. I didn't have any aphids at the moment so I am glad to still be seeing a few of them hanging around. I used the nematodes around the Raspberries. Hopefully that will keep the Japanese beetle numbers down.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Garlic Chives</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Snow in Summer started from seed last spring. This is its first time to flower.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Potato Flower</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blueberries!</td></tr>
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Shawn Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16242486533549946479noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359754378556979145.post-24828707992995340962018-05-14T08:36:00.001-04:002018-05-14T08:37:44.670-04:00Monday May 14, 2018<div style="text-align: center;">
I have not participated in <a href="http://www.ourhappyacres.com/2018/05/harvest-monday-may-14-2018/" target="_blank">Harvest Monday</a> in about 3 or more years. My posting has been hit and miss and far between since 2014 for health reasons. Hoping I can keep up with at least a few <a href="http://www.ourhappyacres.com/2018/05/harvest-monday-may-14-2018/" target="_blank">Harvest Mondays </a>this season. Hope I remembered how to do this right! Please correct me if I didn't!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of my favorite breakfasts, Poached eggs on Against the grain Rolls with potatoes, spinach and bacon. I've cut spinach from the garden twice now this season.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bowl of Red Sails lettuce</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cilantro</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mix of lettuces including red sails, red oak leaf and buttercrunch.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spinach for breakfast!</td></tr>
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I am off to an appointment so I will catch you all later!</div>
Shawn Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16242486533549946479noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359754378556979145.post-18576517531617145242018-05-10T15:40:00.002-04:002018-05-10T15:40:56.582-04:00May Garden 2nd Year in New House<div style="text-align: center;">
It's been a long time! I hope there are still some friendly readers out there! </div>
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This is our second year in the new house, and I am so happy with how the garden is shaping up. And I realized I have yet to share it with you all! How bout a short tour!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peach tree. I am surprised to see any peaches on it, the tree at our old house took at least 3 years or more. We planted this last spring. It has 4 small peaches.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> One of my favorites, this is a SnowBall Viburnum. It is not as fragrant as the viburnum I had before but it sure is beautiful!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First lettuce of the season. We will be enjoying some of this on grassfed burgers this evening!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My favorite thing about this garden is it is right off the back porch! This makes it much easier for me with my MS. It is right outside of my kitchen! I love this!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">greens and peppers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Peas, cucumbers, dill, cilantro and tomatoes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Potatoes going strong in the middle bed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Raspberries along the fence..I brought these from the old house!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blueberries and strawberries, also from the old house! They are SOOOOOO full of blooms and green berries!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This area was empty last year. I used a few of the leftover house brick to create a path to put corn on each side. It is very small still!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from north side of garden</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Asparagus did not make it from the old house, the church garden was just too weedy and it suffocated my asparagus. So these are new. I planted these green starts last year and have planted some purple ones this early spring, late winter, but only one has come up so far. If more don't come up I will start them in a pot next year then transplant because they just don't seem to want to come up!</td></tr>
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In all I have 10 raised beds that my hubby built for me and he keeps them filled for me as well! </div>
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So far this year I have planted corn (blue and sweet), heirloom tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, peppers, beans, potatoes of all colors, purple and orange sweet potatoes, cilantro, parsley, onions, garlic, dill, asparagus, carrots, celery (a first for me), basil, thyme, rosemary and oregano.</div>
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And at the new place I have some nice young boys about the age of my kids who love to help in the garden and watch it grow regularly. My kids could care less! Ha ha!</div>
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Maybe next time I will show the flower beds! I'm trying to plant as many flowers to attract hummingbirds, butterflies and bees! Some are planted throughout the vegetable garden. Sunflowers, blue bedder salvia, gaillardia, salvias, shasta's, coneflowers, lavender, zinnias, cosmos, butterfly bush and more.</div>
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<b><i>Look forward to hearing from some old gardening friends. I hope my energy remains and I can keep up with this a little better. But I just never know, sadly.</i></b></div>
Shawn Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16242486533549946479noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359754378556979145.post-60919689369284068232016-06-02T21:56:00.000-04:002016-06-02T22:00:54.410-04:00It's been a while<div style="text-align: center;">
It has been 2 years since I have updated my blog. There is a good reason for my absence that I will share. I have not been absent from my garden but I just couldn't keep up with both garden and blog. I still can't but maybe I can occasionally update.<br />
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At the end of 2014 my journey with MS (multiple sclerosis) began. It has made me exhausted and unable to keep up with both blogging and garden upkeep. I love my garden so much. I haven't let it go. I have reduced it a tiny bit, but not too much. I refuse to give up something I love so much and makes me feel so accomplished, as well as joy.</div>
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This year, we decided to sell our 2 story house and build a one story ranch style home to help me out. Right now we are in temporary housing as we build. So, in the meantime I have a garden at my church that I am encouraging others to be involved in and share in the bounty. It is nine 3 foot by 25 foot rows. I transplanted some of my perennials there in order to save and take with me. My husband is SOOO much help! He does so much heavy lifting and work for me. He must love me :) </div>
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I am truly thankful for him!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">DH has tilled, and composted and built things and more!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Earlier in the season.</td></tr>
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We have peas, lettuce, chard, spinach, kale, beets, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, herbs, potatoes, beans, sweet potatoes, corn, squash, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, asparagus, and more! Oh my!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It is really taking off now!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My kids scavenging for berries!</td></tr>
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I put so much work into the church garden so late, I am taking the opportunity to get planning my new garden for next year in the new house so I am not so behind, as I feel I am this year! I needed to plan an arrangement and I hope this is going to work! I may need to do some tweaking but hopefully I have the room for what I want to do! The yard will be smaller since the house will be more spread out being one story.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ten boxes around the outside will be 3x6 cedar beds and the inside beds will be brick. We plan to have them lay sod except for around a 26x29 foot area where I plan to mulch it thick and then build beds on top and have them ready by late winter!</td></tr>
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Well, I hope everyone is having a wonderful start to the summer gardening season! </div>
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I'll try to update on occasion. </div>
Shawn Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16242486533549946479noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359754378556979145.post-66799377774063881012014-06-04T13:51:00.000-04:002014-06-04T13:51:52.595-04:00My First Batch of Kombucha<div style="text-align: center;">
Last summer I made fermented dill pickles and Beet Kvass, my first two ferments. I was very happy with both of those. Since then I had been hoping to start making my own Kombucha too! Well, recently my friend was able to share some of her SCOBY's (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) with me. This makes a fermented tea full of probiotics and enzymes. She started me off with a batch already made, which I spilled most of on the way home and had to start all over, it all worked out! Just glad my car isn't stinky!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bottles there are on their second ferment with grape juice, my favorite kombucha flavor! The big jar has my SCOBY and a new batch of sweet tea ready to ferment. I fermented the big jar about 7 days and the second ferment with juice in smaller bottles and jars I did for about 3 days.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here are my 2 SCOBY's. One smaller one that my friend shared and the larger one is from my big jar, the baby. It makes a new baby every 2 batches or so. So I can share with my friends! My mom already wants to give this a try. </td></tr>
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All my kids love the grape Kombucha, I am glad I now can make it so I can feel free to share. I didn't feel very free to share when I was paying $3-4 a 16 oz bottle! I know, not nice. My DH on the other hand hates it. Maybe I will find a recipe he will enjoy sometime. It definitely has a tart, maybe sweet and sour taste, sometimes strong depending on the flavor. But I like the bubbly that the second ferment gives it. </div>
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Here are the directions I followed from various sources and friends:</div>
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Made 2 gallons of tea (I have a BIG jar), I used a mixture of Yerbe Mate, black, and rooibos teas. Boiled the water up on the stove (I bought purified drinking water), added 1 cup of sugar<i> <b>per gallon</b></i> and then steeped the bags in it for 15 minutes. Once it was completely cooled I put the SCOBY and 1 cup of reserved plain kombucha into the big jar with the tea. Then I covered with a light towel and put a elastic band on it and put it in the closet for 7 days. Then I removed the SCOBY and put it in a glass bowl with 1 cup of the kombucha and I mixed the remaining kombucha with a bottle of organic 100% grape juice and put it in bottles or jars with tight fitting lids and put it again in the closet for 3 days until bubbly or to my taste. I had to unscrew once a day or so to make sure the bottle did not bust from the pressure. Then I started a new batch with the SCOBY and reserved kombucha. </div>
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note: I never used metal or plastic utensils or containers, only glass and wooden spoons. Except for the stainless steel pot I used to make the tea, but the SCOBY never touched that.</div>
Shawn Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16242486533549946479noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359754378556979145.post-32831045105270473112014-05-19T14:08:00.000-04:002014-05-19T14:08:09.245-04:00Harvest Monday 5/19<div style="text-align: center;">
It has been a while since I have participated in the Harvest Monday hop at <a href="http://daphnesdandelions.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Daphne's Dandelions</a>. I thought maybe I would jump in with today's harvest. Not much variety, but a good bunch of spinach and lettuce that I am pleased to be getting in abundance. I attempted to make my own creamed spinach the other day with the bags I had pulled in then, but I wasn't too happy with it. If you have a good creamed spinach recipe, please share!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My daughter had herself a plant stand sale instead of the typical lemonade stand. She made $16 in 1 1/2 hours. I'm pretty sure that is way better than a lemonade stand! ;) She still has more to sell too. Hopefully there are still folks looking for some tomato plants.</td></tr>
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Happy Harvesting!</div>
Shawn Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16242486533549946479noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359754378556979145.post-86764789154456951842014-05-13T14:03:00.002-04:002014-05-13T14:10:08.184-04:00Spring Garden 2014 all planted<div style="text-align: center;">
The 2014 garden is finally all planted! Now to keep the critters out ;)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have 2 large Herb pots this year with Lavender, Rosemary, Pineapple sage, purple basil, parsley, thyme and oregano.</td></tr>
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My herb pots completely died this winter, it was just too rough for them. I lost my oregano, thyme and rosemary.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Corn, beans, winter squash, watermelon and cantaloupe. The squash are Musque de Provence and Pennsylvania Dutch long-neck pumpkin.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Potato bed, with a few other things mixed in. Peas on the edges. Potatoes include all blue and cranberry red.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pepper bed, peas on the edge, some spinach that will be gone once the heat kicks in, garlic, onions and carrots planted among the peppers. There are 14 pepper plants including Chocolate bell, Marconi, Lipstick, Golden star Bell, and Serrano.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tomato bed with garlic, onions and carrots planted among them. There are 7 tomato plants in this bed, but I had so many extra I have some scattered around here and there with a total of 17. Hmmm. Hope this gives me more sauce and salsa this year! They include Radiator Charlies Mortgage lifter, Great White, White Currant, Tess's Land Race Currant, Cherokee Purple, Hungarian Italian Paste, Pink Brandywine, Japanese Trifele Black, and Black Krim.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cucumber, both pickle and slicing, along the trellis and a black beauty zucchini, lungo bianco zucchini, and a white scallop squash. Onions around the edges.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The second year for my asparagus. Glad it made it through the rough winter and all looks good.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sweet potato bed, 30 plants! These are All Purple.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More corn, beans, squash, AKA Three Sisters planting. I planted 216 corn, Ruby Queen, Blue Hopi and Blue Clarage. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of the East garden.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cleaning up and planting this back area of the yard behind an eroded ditch. It has looked pretty rough the past few years with only weeds and bare spots, but we planted some nice shade perennials and some shade grass and it is looking greatly improved. Still a lot of work to go though to fix the ditch and other spots.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blueberries and strawberries are full! I can't wait to munch on them. Need to get them covered soon before the critters get to them! Especially that darn chipmunk!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look at all those blueberries! This plant is the most productive looking so far.</td></tr>
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By June the garden should be all lush and green and all filled in! I'll be sure to update!</div>
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I also have so many extra tomato plants I could have a sale! I foolishly added more seeds to the pots when the wouldn't germinate in the cold winter months and now I am shamelessly seeking out any friends that might take some along with all my other extras. Even asking people to start a garden! What could be wrong with that!? My neighbors have finally started a garden and I have completely filled their bed with my overabundance of starts! Better to have too many than not enough!</div>
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I sent my cousin in Virginia several of my sweet potato slips. I should have sent him more, cause I still have an abundance. Who knew the left over taters would supply such and abundance!</div>
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Well, Happy Gardening I hope your garden is off to a great spring start!</div>
Shawn Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16242486533549946479noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5359754378556979145.post-2509925816798550562014-04-29T10:46:00.000-04:002014-04-29T10:46:13.178-04:00Spring 2014 planning<div style="text-align: center;">
Blogging has gotten a bit too much the last year or so. Just too much to do and not enough time, especially as my garden and my kids grow! But I am still hard at work in the garden, and I am overloaded with seedlings this spring! (Which I am sharing with friends close by! Come and get 'em!)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My out of control seed starting operation!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My 2014 garden plan...for now!</td></tr>
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